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Brady HendersonESPN
Seattle Seahawks security Jamal Adams is anticipated to overlook the rest of the NFL season after struggling an harm to his quadriceps tendon within the workforce’s opener, a supply confirmed to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
The Seahawks positioned Adams on injured reserve on Thursday and signed defensive again Teez Tabor off the Atlanta Falcons‘ follow squad to take his place on their 53-man roster.
Adams and the Seahawks believed the three-time Professional Bowl choice was in for a bounce-back marketing campaign after a disappointing 2021 season during which he was held and not using a sack in 12 video games. However any likelihood of that ended within the second quarter of Seattle’s 17-16 victory over the Denver Broncos on Monday evening when Adams was carted off the sphere after he was harm whereas blitzing former teammate Russell Wilson.
Coach Pete Carroll known as it a “severe” harm postgame and mentioned on his weekly radio present on Seattle Sports activities 710 AM on Tuesday morning that Adams would “must get some work on that,” although he stopped wanting declaring then that Adams’ season was over.
NFL Community first reported Thursday that Adams would have season-ending surgical procedure.
Adams limped off the sphere in apparent ache, closely favoring his left leg, after delivering stress and a success on Wilson that helped drive a third-down incompletion. After being examined within the medical tent, he was helped onto an harm cart. Adams was visibly upset, at one level showing to burst out in frustration, as he was pushed into the locker room.
Carroll has mentioned the harm is to Adams’ quadriceps tendon, which attaches the quad muscle to the highest of the kneecap.
“The truth that he’s such a heartthrob in regards to the sport of soccer, he loves taking part in and he simply cannot cope with it proper now about ‘how may this maintain occurring?'” Carroll mentioned on his radio present. “It was good he had his mother and pa within the locker room actually in the course of the sport when he was in there to sort of assist him by it and all that, but it surely was actually powerful. So I hope everyone sends the like to him.”
Adams had three tackles and defended a go earlier than his harm. Josh Jones changed him for the remainder of the sport. Seattle additionally has Ryan Neal as a security choice. Neal made 4 begins in 2020 whereas Adams was sidelined by a groin harm. Tabor, 26, performed security final season with the Chicago Bears beneath defensive coordinator Sean Desai, who’s now on Seattle’s defensive employees.
Adams missed solely two video games over his first three seasons with the New York Jets however then missed 9 video games over his first two seasons with the Seahawks — 4 in 2020 and the ultimate 5 final season after he suffered one other torn shoulder labrum that required surgical procedure. Adams missed time early in coaching camp this summer time after rebreaking the center finger on his left hand, one other harm he has handled previously. He had finger surgical procedures in every of the previous two offseasons.
Adams and the Seahawks have been hoping that Seattle’s new protection — with its emphasis on split-safety appears — would put him in place for a bounce-back. Throughout his stellar debut season in Seattle in 2020, Adams set the NFL document for sacks by a defensive again with 9.5, incomes him his third straight Professional Bowl nod, regardless of taking part in by a shoulder labrum tear that season. However then got here his zero-sack 2021 season, which ended after 12 video games when he retore his left shoulder labrum.
Talking final week for the primary time since his newest finger harm, Adams mentioned Seattle’s new protection places him “in place to make performs.”
“I am again in my aspect, man,” he mentioned. “I really feel like I am again taking part in protection.”
The Seahawks acquired Adams from the Jets in 2020 for a package deal that included first-round picks in 2021 and 2022. They signed him to a four-year, $70 million extension final summer time that made him the NFL’s highest-paid security at the moment.
